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formulas for preparing his own flavors, and to be 
enabled to prepare them is not only a source of satisfac- 
tion, but is also very desirable on account of the great 
saving and increase of profits in his business. All the 
formulas contained herein will be found reliable, and 
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ET me call your attention to the celebrated fra- 
grant Killikinick, the highly celebrated Indian 
luxury and remedy, possessing as it does, the 
remarkable power of protecting the system against taking 
cold after smoking it, making it invaluable for cubeb cig- 
arettes, and a ready relief for all catarrhal affections. 

All practical tobacco men are more or less familiar 
with the brand Killikinick, though very few understand 
the origin of the name. It is an Indian name, and the 
North American Indians were wise, however, and avail- 
ed themselves of this discovery hundreds of years ago. 
It is well known what inveterate smokers the Indians are, 
and still we never see any injurious effects of this habit 
upon them. This may be due, in part, to their vigorous 
constitutions and hardy nomadic life ; but it is mainly 
due, I think, to the form in which they use their tobacco, 
and until they learn the habit from the whites they rare- 
ly or never use the pure leaf. Their " Killikinick " — the 
agreeable aroma of which, once inhaled in a wigwam or 
lumberman's cabin, can never be forgotten. 

This is composed of equal parts of tobacco and the in- 
side bark of a species of the cornus eoricea, or swamp 
dogwood. 

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than a fourth. This bark is an astringent, and abounds 
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the effects of the tobacco. The fancy brands of smoking 

tobacco, labeled " Killikinick," sold by tobacconists in 
papers, it is needless to say, is pure tobacco, and has 
no real claim to the name. The Indian name for the pe- 
culiar species of swamp dogwood which they use for ♦$♦ 
smoking, is "Killikinick," and yellow sumac bark, or 

*** rhus glabra, hence the name. 

As we learned the art of smoking from the American 
savages, it would be only showing proper respect to our 
tastes to take the weed as they do. They peel the inside 
bark of the shrub, dry it, pound it to a fine powder in 
their stone mortars, and then mix intimately with the 

if. crumbled tobacco. 

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vertigo, and pains in the stomach after smoking, dis- 
covered that by mixing a few dried leaves of eucalyp- 
tus globulus with his tobacco, all these effects are pre- 
vented. 

My theory in this case would be that the poisonous 
carbonic oxide in the tobacco smoke, which is constantly 
present, is denicopinized by the tannin in the eucalyptus 
leaves. 

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It is not generally known that tanic acid has a won- •$• 
derful influence on tobacco smoke. It completely denico- 
tinizes tobacco, and thus deprives it of its poisonous 
principle. These statements are well founded, and will 
soon lead to combining with tobacco some of the agreea- 
ble vegetable astringents, that smokers may not have 

% their nervous organizations broken down so speedily as 
by the use of clear tobacco. 
If the bowl of a pipe is filled about one-fourth full of 

X tannin, filled up with tobacco and smoked, the aroma of 
the tobacco will be rendered quite mild, and the smoker 
scarcely feels the effect of the tobacco on his nervous 
system. 

The experiment is more striking if a bit of sponge be 
saturated with a saturated solution of tannin, and placed 
in the bottom of a pipe, the smoke of the first two pipe- 
fulls of tobacco will pass out as vaporless and innocent 
as the smoke from a child's rattan or grape vine cigar, 
and as devoid of tobacco smell. But if several more 
pipefulls are smoked, the tannin having taken up all the 
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will begin to pass out with its natural taste and aroma. 
A sponge, after being used in this way, acquires a pecu- 
liar stale tobacco odor. A common pipe may be used in 
this experiment ; but with it the smoker is very apt to 
draw some of the tannin solution into his mouth, produ- 
cing an unpleasant •' green persimmon " puckering. The 
Turkish pipe, which is provided with a reservoir contain- 
ing water, answers the purpose admirably. The place 
for water may be filled with a saturated solution of tan- 
nin, or what is better, as it prevents the unpleasant bub- 
bling noise, a sponge saturated with the solution. By 
changing the sponge often enough, a person may smoke 
as immoderately as he pleases without any injurious 
effects ; and it is particularly recommended to ambitious 
young gentlemen whom the weed, in its natural condi- 
:• tion, " makes sick." 

I would also remark that smoking tobacco steeped in 
a saturated solution of tannin, and dried, would be 
equally harmless. I am not sanguine, however, that all 
mankind, if they knew it, would avail themselves of the 
advantages of this discovery, it might be like the French- 
man's antidote to the intoxicating effects of alcoholic 
potations — it destroys the effect for which the poison is 

used, though many will doubtless consider it a boon. 

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antidote or denicotinizer than tanic acid. However, the 
tannin is very good, and has the advantage over sassa- 
fras of being entirely inodorous. 

I have frequently made the experiment, and found it 
true, that after smoking a strong pipe rather freely, and 
suffering a good deal of vertigo as a consequence, then 
reloading with a mixture of sassafras bark, a few puffs 
of which invariably dispelled the unpleasant sensation. 
I have also known the power of the oil of sassafras tested 
fully in destroying the poison of insects and reptiles — 
such as musquitos, fleas, spiders, bees, wasps, etc., and 
on one occasion know of its powers being tested over the 
venom of the copperhead snake, and found it succeeded 
promptly ! 

Let anyone susceptible to the disagieeable influence 
of nicotine put a few drops of the oil on the end of a 
cigar or on the tobacco in a pipe, and he will very soon 
be convinced that it is a complete antidote. In making 
the experiment with the pipe, it is best to cover the oiled 
portion of the tobacco with some that is dry, or it will 
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I have seen no notice of it by the medical journals, 
and it seems to me that these statements in reference to 
the properties of the sassafras are worthy of being known 
and tested. 

A Question : Is there any chemical analogy between 
oil of sassafras and tanic acid; or, is there" any explana- 
tion of this identity of effect? Is their action purely 
chemical and on the nicotine ; or, is it physiological, and 
on the nerve tissue? 

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leaf is stripped from the stem in large quantities, and 
steeped in water until thoroughly wet ; it is then placed 
in a kiln, where it is dried until it is simply flexible, 
loosing all that crispness which it originally had. From 
the drying kiln it is taken to a strong screw press and 
placed in an oblong box, where it is pressed until it be- 
comes a solid block, this is done that it may present a 
hard unyielding surface to the knives of the cutter, be- 
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that each manufacturer possessing a cutter has to give 
security to the amount of $3,000 for the payment of his 
producing tax. 

The tobacco is cut closely by the machine, from which 
it is taken to the drying floor above ; here it is deposited 
in a heap to ferment, a process that requires about a 
month to perfect. The greatest caution and attention 
are required while the weed is in this state, to keep it 
from spoiling. Like bread, however, the nearer you can 
get it to spoiling, without actually doing so, the better it 
will be. It has to be turned and moved constantly until 
it is thoroughly fermented, when it is taken down stairs 
again and put through the mill, this mill consists of a 
scries of conical hoppers, called " mulls," in which are 
placed four vertical iron rollers, which act as mill stones 
in grinding the tobacco. The manufacturer has togive„.> 
security in $1,000 for each mull also, to insure the pay- 
ment of his tax to the government. The tobacco comes 
out of the " mull " in the shape of what is called " coarse 
meal," the grain being about twice the size of coarse In- 
dian meal. After being wet and manipulated this be- 
comes " Rappee " snuff without further grinding, and it 
is the cheapest kind. The whole mass is then put into 
barrels in a perfectly cool condition, it has no smell nor 
flavor whatever ; after remaining in the barrels a short 
time it becomes heated, and in the course of ten days or 
two weeks it is taken. out with a high flavor and strength. 
The longer it is kept in the barrels the darker it becomes 
in color, and it also gains additional strength. Salt is 
then mixed with it to cool it down and keep it. 

If " Scotch " snuff is desired it is made perfectly dry 
and ground in the mill again to make it of finer grain. 

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for all the fine grades of stock. This in itself, being en- 
tirely inodorous, is not intended for a box flavor, but 
will yield the fine natural Havana aroma when burning, 
hence the advantage in using it on fine goods, as they 
never can be called doped or doctored goods. It is 
equally good for cheap stock, (.but it makes it too fine.) 
No. 1 consists in simply a strong infusion of the green 
old government Java coffee, the other fine grades would 
answer, such as golden Rio, Mocha or Cordova. To guar- 
antee uniform results special care must be taken in pre- 
paring the coffee, and if the following directions are 
closely followed this entire list of formulas must lead to 
success throughout. 

Notice: In preparing the coffee, first select only the 
best clean coffee, then dry in a stove oven, at a slow 
heat, not hot enough to burn or even brown, but only 
dry enough to grind in a clean mill, or if it can be ground 
or coarsely powdered, without drying, all the better. Be 
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coal oil, tfcc. 

To prepare the coffee take one ounce of the finely 

ground coffee to one pint of boiling water, and boil until 

the strength is entirely exhausted, then strain and bot- 
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■:• tie for use. Any quantity can be made in this proportion, 
or as strong as possible, but the coffee should always be 
prepared fresh for use, unless it be preserved with alco- 
hol and a little glycerine. 
For the No. 1 flavor take of the coffee infusion, 1 pint; 
• nitrate of potash, 1 drachm ; pure glycerine, 1 drachm; 
oil of bitter almonds, half drachm;, alcohol, 98% or 
pure alcohol, to cut the oil, 1 ounce. Mix and apply 

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Flavor No. 2, with or without the coffee, is excellent 
for all cheaper goods, and will almost make an Havana 
of a stogia. If the coffee is not used, take dilute alcohol 
or Jamaica rum, 1 pint; tannic acid and glycerine, each, 
1 drachm; nitrate of potash, half drachm, oil of bitter 
almonds, or patchouly, 1 drachm. Cut with 1 ounce of 
alcohol. Lastly add 1 ounce of aqua ammonia. Apply 
' as in above receipt, and if desired you can add extract 
valerian and tonqua bean to this or any of the flavors 

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ever, you are expected to use your own judgment in the 
general manipulation of your tobacco, always bearing in 
mind, however, that the glycerine is the important and ~; 
indispensable ingredient in all flavors, its object being to 
hold the flavor. The tanic acid is only designed for 
strong stock, as it neutralizes the nicotine, and is not so 
necessary in the flavors for the finer grades. Don't for- 
get that the green coffee is simply immense in every 
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4* almost the real flavor of genuine Havana, and makes a •§• 
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Take mace and cloves, each, 1 ounce; best fresh cin- 
namon bark, 2 ounces. Grind or powder moderately 
fine, put into a half gallon bottle and add dilute alcohol, 
1% pints; glycerine, 2 drachms; fluid ext. valerian, 2 
ounces ; compound tincture vanilla, 8 ounces. Let mac- *' 
4* erate for two weeks, shaking the bottle frequently, then J. 
filter or decant. Always drive out the remainder in the 
filterer with dilute alcohol, until the strength is exhaust- 
ed. This can be bottled and kept constantly on hand. 
This flavor can be applied to the end of the cigar. 

Note. — The compound tincture of vanilla. — V;»nilla 
bean, 1 ounce ; tonqua bean, 2 ounces. Grind and add 
2 pints of dilute alcohol. Macerate two weeks, then fil- 
ter as above. 
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compound, as most druggists use the tonqua in making 

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separately or with other flavors, but not more than one 
or two of the oils in combination: oil of patchouly, oil 
of sandlewood, oil of rose, oil of bitter almond, oil of 
pure red cedar (not white). 

Ext. valerian and F.F.F. ammonia blend very nicely 
with the oils and all other flavors, and make good box 
flavors. 

Pure fine oil of Havana tobacco is the great secret iu 
fine goods. Even good Havana is wonderfully improved 
by it, but great care is necessary in handling it, as it is a 
deadly poison in its pure state. Consult your druggist 
for anything that you do not understand in this work, 
and see his U. S. Dispensary, latest 15th edition, for 
strength, nature, use, etc. Kemember always to cut the 
oils with strong alcohol, and don't forget that a little 
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> - sumach bark, 1 part — all mixed. It can be used alone 

or mixed with tobacco that has been saturated with a ♦ 
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For splint cigar lighters the black walnut wood excels 
everything. 

The acme of all flavors is my No. 1 — the Java coffee, 
!£ oil of Havana tobacco, aqua ammonia, &c. — as given in 
the formula. 

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The Cuban King of Flavors is alum water — \% ounces 

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A harmles dye or color for light leaf can be found in 
% the black walnut. This can be obtained by macerating 
the green hulls in water. After standing two or three 
weeks, decant the clear liquor and preserve by adding a 
half drachm of salicylic acid dissolved in one ounce of 
glycerine, (or first in a saturated solution of chlorate of 
potash), then add the glycerine. This proportion for one 
galon. Keep well covered or tightly corked; 



An excellent flavor for cigar paste is fluid extract of 
licorice. For quinine mixture, Park, Davis & Co.'s 
make, add to the tragecanth to suit the taste. 

For label paste nothing is better than Dextrine. 

To keep fine-cut chewing tobacco from drying out. — 
Moisten with a little glycerine and Jamaica rum ; or, for 



a ten pound pail, one medium sized potato, cut in two 
and placed in the centre. The potato must be sound 
clean and dry. For plug tobacco the addition of a little 
prepared potato meal and glycerine, or meal alone, when 
being prepared for the press. 

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We do not find in any accounts of the English voy- 
agers made previous to 1484, any mention of the discovery 
of tobacco, or its use among the Indians. This may ap- 
pear a little strange, as Captains Amidas and Barlow, 
who sailed from England under the auspices of Sir Wal- 
ter Raleigh in 1584, on returning from Virginia, had 
brought home with them pearls and tobacco among other 

-I* curiosities. But while we have no account of those who 
returned from the voyage made in 1602 taking any to- 
bacco with them, it is altogether probable that those who 
remained took a lively interest in the plant and the In- 
dian mode of use ; for we find that in nine years after they 
landed at Jamestown, tobacco had become quite an arti- 
cle of culture and commerce. The first general planting 
of tobacco by the colony began in 1616, when the colony 
numbered only three hundred and fifty one persons. 

The cultivation of tobacco increased with the growth 
of the colony and the increase of price, which at this time 
was sufficient to induce most planters to neglect the cul- 
ture of Corn and Wheat, devoting their time to growing 
their "darling tobacco." The first thirty years after the 
colonization of Virginia by the English, the colony made 
but little progress owing in part to private factions and 
Indian wars. The horrid massacres by the Indians 
threatened the extermination of the colony, and for a 

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as in the year 1520 the difficulties seem first to have been 
publicly avowed, (though perhaps before felt,) arising 
from attaching men as permanent settlers to the colony 
without an adequate supply of women to furnish the com- 
forts of domestic life ; and to overcome the difficulty " a 
hundred young women" of agreeable persons and re- 



time the plantations were neglected and even tobacco be- 
came more of an article of import than of export. 

The demand for tobacco in England increasing each 
year, together with the high price paid for that from Vir- 
ginia (3s per lb.), stimulated the planters to hazard all 
their time and labor upon one crop, neglecting the culti- 
vation of the smaller grains, intent only upon curing " a 



v good store of tobacco. " The company of adventurers at 
length f 3und it necessary to check the excessive planting 
of the weed. 

In 1639 the " Grand Assembly " (summoned the sixth 
of January) passed a law restricting the growth of the 

colonly to 1,500,000 lbs., and to 1 200,000 in the two years 

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At this period it appears that tobacco was used as 
money, and as the measure of price and value. The 
taxes, whether public, county, or parish, were payable 
in tobacco . 

Even the tavern keepers were compelled to exchange •§" 
a dinner for tobacco. The salary of ministers was paya- 
ble in it according to the wealth of the parish. 

Some parts of the country made such mean ami poor •$• 
tobacco that clergymen didn't care to live in such par- 
ishes ; but there the payment might be made in money, 
or in the produce of those places, which might be equiv- 
alent to the tobacco payments; better for the minister, 
and as pleasing to the people ; it was even the happy me- 
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spectable characters, were selected in England and sent 
out, at the expense of the Company, as wives for the set- 
tlers They were very speedily appropriated by the 



young men of the colony, who paid for the privilege of 
choice, considerable money, which went to replenish the 
treasury of the Company, from whence the cost of their 

.£ outfit and passage had been defrayed . 

This speculation proved so advantageous to that body, 
in a pecuniary sense, that it was followed up by sending 
out sixty more, for whom larger prices were paid than 
for the first consignment; the amount paid on the aver- 

♦> age for the first one hundred being 120 pounds of tobacco 
apiece for each, then valued at 3s. per lb., and for the 

•s* second supply of sixty, the average price paid was 150 

.$• lbs. of tobacco, this being the legal currency of the col- 
any, and the standard value by which all contracts, sala- 
ries, and prices were paid. In one of the Companies 
letters dated in London this 12th of August, 1621, we find 
this account of a portion of the googs sent over in the ship 

♦* Marmaduke : 

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"We send you in this ship one widow and eleven 



visions aboard, which defect shalbe supplied by the mag- 
azine shipp ; and in case they cannot be presently mar- 
ryed we desire they be putt to several householders that 
have wives till they can be provided of husbands. There 



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maids for wives for the people in Virginia ; there hath 
been especiall care had in the choise of them, for there 
hath not any one of them beene received but upon good 
commendations, as by a note herewith sent you may per- 
ceive ; we pray you all therefore in generall to take them 
into your care, and most especially we recommend them 
to you, Mr. Pountes, that at their first landing they may 
be housed, lodged, and provided for of diet till they be 
marryed for such was the haste of sending them away, as 
that straightned with time, we had no means to putt pro- 






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are neare fifty more which are shortly to come, we sent 

♦ bv our most honorable Lord William the Earl of South- 
ampton and certain worthy gentlemen who taking into 
these considerations, that the Plantation can never flour- 

♦ ish till families be planted and the respect of wives and 
children fix the people in the soil ; therefore have given 
this fair beginning for the reimbursing of whose charges, 
itt is ordered that every man that marries them give 120 
lb. waight of best leafe tobacco for each of them, and in 
case any of them dye that proportion must be advanced 
to make it upp to those that survive, etc." 

In another letter written by the Company and dated 
London, September 11, 1621, they write: 

" By this Shipp and Pinace called the Tyger, we als"o 

send as many maids and young women as will make up 

4* the number of fifty, with those twelve formerly sent in 

4* the Marmaduke, which we hope shalbe received with the 

same Christian pietie and charitie as they were sent from 

♦ hence ; the providing for them at their first landing and 
4» disposing of them in marriage (which is our chief intent), 

we leave to your care and wisdom, to take that order as 
' may most conduce to their good, and satisfaction of the 
Adventurers, for the charges disbursed in setting them 
forth, which coming to twelve- pounds and upwards, 
they require one hundred and fiftie of the best leafe to- 
: bacco for each of them." 

And thus you see, even though King James, up to his 
death, and during his reign, did all he could against the 
growth and traffic in tobacco, and even though his son 
-i* who succeeded him carried with him in his reign the ♦ 
.$. strong convictions of his father, tobocco then, as now, ^ 
did and ever shall occupy a place of prominence as one 
of the important articles of trade and commerce in Amer- 
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The tobacco plant almost vies with the palm in the 

-> number of varieties : botanists having enumerated as 

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number now being cultivated. The plant shows also a 
great variety of forms, leaves, colors of flowers' and tex- 
tures. Each kind has some peculiar feature or quality 
not found in another; thus, one varietv will have large 
leaves another will have small ones ; one variety will 
produce a leaf black or brown, another leaf yellow or 
dark red. All the varieties of tobacco may be divided 
into three classes : cigar, snuff and cut-leaf tobacco. 

The first class — leaf tobacco — includes the finest quali- 
ties of tobacco grown, including Connecticut seed leaf, 
Havana, Yara, Manilla, Giron, Paraguayan, Mexican, 
Brazilian, Sumatra, etc. 

The second class embraces such as Virginia, Holland, 
Brazilian, French, etc 

The third class includes all tobaccos used for smoking 

and chewing purposes, such as Virginia, Kentucky, Mis- *:* 

souri, Ohio, Maryland, Perique, Turkish, etc. 

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nection, and in order that they may know something of 
the character and where grown, we have thought it ad- 
visable to give a description of some of the ones most 
commonly used. The term "seed leaf," so commonly X 
used, means tobacco grown from the seed of Havanna 
4* Tobacco in some of our own States, as Connecticut seed 
leaf means tobacco grown in the State of Connecticut 
from the seed of Havana tobacco, which by the ivay 

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tobaccos . The plant is strong and vigorous, ripening in 
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very large size. 

DWARF TOBACCO 

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♦♦♦ known, growing only to a height of about eighteen inches. 
It is a very peculiar looking plant, the leaves grow only 
at the bottom ; this variety has generally been thought to 
be what is commonly known as Deertongue, it being 
green in color and of a very fine odor. 



VARA TOBACCO. 



This variety of tobacco, like Havana, is grown on the 
island of Cuba, but is unlike it in flavor, as well as in 
the appearance of the plant. It is not grown to a very 
great extent ; the flavor of Yara tobacco is different from 
Havana, although grown on the same island, it is grown 
more especially for home use, its flavor being very fine. 
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States. The Havanna seed has been planted in Connec- 
ticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, New 
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin. All of the seed 
leaf of these States is used exclusively in the manufac- 
ture of cigars. 

CONNECTICUT SEED LEAF 

is justly celebrated as the finest known for cigar wrap- 
pers, from the superiorty of its color and texture, and 
the good burning quality of the leaf ; this plant grows 
to a height of five feet, with leaves from two and one half 
to three feet in length and from fifteen to twenty inches 
broad, fitted preeminently by their large size for wrap- 
pers, which are obtained at such a distance from the stem 
of the leaf as to be free from large veins ; again it is 
superior on account of its color, being either dark or 



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SUMATRA TOBACCO. 

Sumatra tobacco is one of the finest varieties cultivated- 
and commands in European markets the very highest 
prices. The plant is a vigorous grower, and produces 
large, fine leaves of most delicate odor. The leaf is of 
beautiful appearance, of almost a silky texture, and in 
color a rich brown. It is extensively used in the raanu- 
facture of cigars. 

TURKISH TOBACCO. 

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The tobacco of Turkey has been called by some enthu- 
siastic smoker "the king of tobaccos," but whether it 
4. possesses this royal preeminence over all other varieties *|* 
we very much question. That it is a fine smoking tobac- 
co, no one can doubt that ever " put breath" to the favor- 
ed pipe that contains the yellow shreds, but we should *g» 
prefer by far to part with it rather than with its great 
rival, Havana tobacco. The woik of cultivating a field 
of Turkish tobacco is very tedious, as large quantities of 4* 
water have to be carried to sprinkle upon the plants. 
The finest color, a pale yellow leaf, brings "inflated" 
prices, but more often by others than the poor Turk who 
grows it. 

GUATEMALA TOBACCO. 

The tobacco of Central America, though possessing 
considerable excellence, has never become an important 
product, nor to any extent an article of commerce. We 
do not know of any being used in the manufacture of 
cigars in this country, although one or two manufacturers 
claim to use it. We think, however it is only "a claim." 

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MANILLA TOBACCO 

This variety is one of the most celebrated grown in the 
East. It is used exclusively for the manufacture of cigars 
and cheroots, and supplies India and Spain with a vast 
quantity of the manufactured article. 

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It is of good body but smooth, and has the appearance 
of tobacco that has been "frost-bitten." The leaf is not 
as porous as most other tobaccos, and therefore does not 
as readily ignite, and frequently 'chars' in burning — thus 
giving it the name of a non-burning tobacco . It is but 

little used in this country. 

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4» PEEIQUE TOBACCO. 

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There are many varieties of tobacco well adapted for 
smoking, but none wilkcompare favorably with the Peri- 
que tobacco, its flavor is simply elegant. It is cultivated 
only in small quantities in one or two parishes in Lou- 
isiana ; it is used not only for smoking, but for snuff and 
chewing. This variety of tobacco derives its name from 
an old Spanish navigator, who settled in St. James par- 
ish in the year 1820, who devoted all his time and atten- 
tion to growing it. 

It is manufactured entirely by hand, and is twisted in 
to about four pound rolls, and placed under a press for 
three or four days, then taken out, untwisted, retwisted, 
and replaced in the press for five or six: days, after un- 
dergoing the same process for five or six times, it is finally 
left in the press for five or six months, then taken out for 
use. It is manufactured by the same process to-day as 
it was fifty years ago. The very pleasant aroma for 
which it is noted is natural to the tobacco, and not, as 
many suppose, artificial. When mixed with the bright 
Virginia smoking tobacco it adds great attractions to the 



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MEXICAN TOBACCO. 

The tobacco plant seems to have been cultivated in 
Mexico from time immemorial. Francisco Lopez de 
Gomara, who was chaplain to Cortez, when he made 
conquest of Mexico, in 1519, alludes to the plant and the 
custom of smoking; and Diaz relates that the king Mon- 
tezuma had his pipe brought with much ceremony by 

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the chief ladies of his court, after he had dined and 4» 

4» washed his mouth with scented water. The Spaniards 
encouraged its cultivation, and to this day it is grown in 

4* several of the coast States. Various kinds are cultivated, ♦> 
but chiefly a variety bearing yellow flowers, with a large 
leaf of fine flavor resembling the Havana. The plant is a 
favorite among the Mexicans, who prefer it to any other 
product grown. After the first harvest, another, and 
sometimes a third crop is gathered by allowing one shoot 
to grow from the parent root, which oftentimes develops 
to a considerable size. The quality of leaf, however ,is in- 
ferior, as is the case with all second and third crops 
grown in this manner. 

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This well-known West India variety is inferior to most 
kinds grown on the neighboring islands. The plant 
attains a large size, cures dark, is coarse, and of inferior X 
flavor. It is a favorite tobacco in Germany, and thousands 
of Ceroons are annually shipped to Hamburg. The 
West India islands produce many varieties of tobacco, 
which is owing more to the composition of the soil and 
♦!• climate than to the method of cultivation and curing. 

The demand for St. Domingo tobacco is limited. It X 
has no established reputation in this country, and on 
account of the high duties can not compete with our do 

mestic tobaccos. 

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This variety of the tobacco plant is one of the most 
celebrated known to commerce. It attains its finest ♦ 
form and flavor in Syria, where it is cultivated to a great $ 
extent. For smoking it is among the best of the varie- 
ties of the East, and is used for the more delicate cut 

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The following short descriptions of s >u i <>' he r ne!- «r 
pal kinds of Cigars may be of interest. 

HAVANA CIGARS. 

These are, by common consent, the finest in the world. 
They possess every quality desirable in a cigar, and 
seemingly t > its greatest extent. Grown in the richest 
portion of the tropical world, the leaf has a rich, oily 
appearance, and, when made into cigars, possesses a 
flavor as rich as it is rare. 



•I* VARA CIGARS. ♦§» 

This variety of cigars is made from tobacco grown on 

the Island of Cuba bearing the same name a^s the cigars. 

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They are highly esteemed by those who smoke onlj this 
kind, but are not liked by most smokers of Havana cigars. 
Most of them are exported to Europe,. very few of them 
finding their wav to this country. It is somewhat diffi- 
cult to compare them with Havana cigars as the flavor is 
essentially different. 

MANILLA CIGARS. 

This well-known variety of cigars is manufactured from 
Manilla tobacco grown in Luzerne, one of the Phillip- 
pine Islands, which is known as superior leaf for cigar 
purposes. Manilla cigars have an extensive reputation, 
but principally in the East and Europe. These cigars 
are made in various forms and shapes, some of them are 

called cheroots (the term used in the P^ast for cigars) and 
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distinct from that of Havana cigars. 
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this country, owing to the fact of their being but little 

•fr known. In Europe the cigars of Luzerne have no insig- •§• 

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who prefer a mild and agreeable cigar. These cigars 

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£ little variety of flavor. Travelers and tourists through 

Switzerland speak of Swiss cigars as being o r agreeable 

'►> flavor, and unlike any other found in Europe. With 

American tobacco, those of a dark color are usually 

strong, but with European tobaccos this is not always 

the case — they possess much less strength, and can be 

used more freely than the tobacco of America These 

cigars are usually pressed, and burn well, leaving a dark «§• 

colored ash, and emitting a fragrant odor. 4* 

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PARAGUAY CIGARS. ♦ 

These cigars are made of one of the finest varieties of leaf % 
tobacco known to commerce. Although unknown to this 
country — both the cigar.-? and the leaf tobacco have a de 
served reputation in Europe, and it is beyond all ques 
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•§• • This variety of cigars, although of excellent flavor, is 

hardly known outside of Central America. They are ^ 

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♦ Hobbes smoked after each meal. 4* 
Milton never went to bed without a pipe. 

Sir Isaac Newton was smoking in his garden at Wools- 

thorpe when the apple fell. 

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